- What's up trainiacs?
Welcome to this week's Triathlon News Day Tuesday,
where we discuss Jan Frodeno being outski of Kona,
short course ITU triathlon wraps up for the year
in a blistering fashion,
and a triathlete does not get all he could eat.
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What's up trainiacs?
Welcome to this week's Triathlon News Day Tuesday,
where every single Tuesday,
as long as I'm not traveling,
we discuss the goings on around the triathlon world.
As always, make sure you stick around to the end,
where this week,
we will not be sharing everyone's favorite part
of Triathlon News Day,
that being a story from the trainiac community
because this week we are going to run a giveaway,
so we'll tell you about that at the end
and as always,
links to everything that we talk about
will be in the description below.
Let's start off by getting this out of the way,
Jan Frodeno announced last week
that he is out of Kona with a stress fracture in his hip.
Save you all the details because I did a full video on that
that I will link to right up here,
but basically, Frodo's out, not gonna be in Kona.
So stayed tuned and make sure you're subscribed
to the channel to see who I think is going to now be
the favorite to win in Kona.
Short course racing on the World Triathlon Series wrapped up
over the course of the weekend
at the Australian Gold Coast,
with Ashleigh Gentle winning on the women's side
and a sprint finish in Vincent Luis
outrunning Mario Mola.
Incredible, that never happens.
However, over the course of the entire year
short Course ITU athletes accumulate points
and the world champion is crowned based off of points
and their performance over the course of the entire year.
On the women's side,
Vicky Holland won for the first time in her career,
and on the men's side,
Mario Mola won for the third time in his career,
being the only athlete that's won
three championships in a row
since his countryman, Javier Gomez, did that.
It was also announced while the
Gold Coast ITU event was going on,
that the 2022 Grand Final event for ITU
is going to be awarded to Abu Dhabi.
Now, this is not the first time
Abu Dhabi has held an ITU event.
They've actually held one for the last few years.
It has gone quite successively.
They've never held a Grand Final however,
but they are putting more and more money into triathlon
and from what I hear,
their events are absolute first class.
Now, this is taking the world by storm
and I think rightfully so,
because it proves how awesome triathletes are at eating.
A triathlete named Jaroslav Bobrowski,
went to an all-you-can-eat sushi place in Bavaria,
paid the $15.99 all-you-can-eat buffet fee
and did not get all he could eat.
He apparently went on to eat 100 plates of sushi.
When he went to the owner of the restaurant at the end,
the owner would not even accept the tip
and told him that he was banned
from ever coming to the restaurant again.
Now, Bobrowski, in addition to being a triathlete,
he follows an intermittent fasting diet,
where he doesn't eat for 20 hours out of every single day
and in the course of that four hours,
he eats until he's full.
He's not full.
I'm not even mad, I'm impressed.
That's so cool.
It was a very quiet week on the Ironman racing circuit.
The only Ironman race with pro triathletes in it
was Half Ironman 70.3 Nice,
which was held on the course
that is going to be the course
for the Half Ironman World Championships in 2019.
New pal that I met while I was in Boulder,
Rudy von Berg, won on the men's side in 4:09:50,
while on the women's side,
Manon Genêt won in 4:46:30.
Now, you may be thinking that these aren't fast times
and the fact of the matter is that they aren't.
However, former Coach Pat,
he did some cycling this summer in Nice.
He biked the course that the Half Ironman World Championship
and this course was on.
He said it's just an outright road bike course.
So, for those of you who are planning on racing Nice,
get your aero bars ready
and get yourself a road bike.
Now, before we get into the giveaway to wrap up today,
in podcast land, we just published a full recap
to wrap up all of our coverage of the
Half Ironman World Championships.
Where NTK and I, we sat right across from each other here,
discussing the pro triathletes race
in Half Ironman World
and basically what it means that
Daniela and Lucy went head to head
and what it means that
Javier and Jan and Alistair went head to head.
What it means for the sport going forward.
What were some things we didn't cover in the race
because there were a lot of peculiarities.
Like, why was Daniela Ryf allowed to race
with her top completely open,
when that disqualifies age groupers?
Who is going to be the next thing?
Or is Jan going to be the next thing for a number of years
in full distance racing,
when it comes to Alistair versus Jan versus Javier?
All of that we talk about.
And this coming week,
if you aren't already subscribed
to the Triathlon Taren podcast,
which just so happens to be
the top-rated tri podcast in the world on Apple Podcast,
we will be publishing our interview
with Lucy Charles this Sunday.
So, stay tuned for that.
Now to wrap up this week's Triathlon News Day Tuesday,
we are running a giveaway at the moment,
with one of our podcast sponsors, New Wave Swim Buoy.
Now, if you don't listen to the podcast,
you might not know that even though
I am a fairly confident open water swimmer,
I have actually really grown to like New Wave Swim Buoy
because as I was doing a bunch of my training this year
in the Red River, in Winnipeg,
I was finding that boats couldn't see me,
I was getting buzzed a lot by canoers, kayakers, rowers,
even like motorboats,
and I put on New Wave Swim Buoy,
just let it dangle around,
can't feel it at all,
it doesn't drag whatsoever,
but those boats end up going a long way away
because they can apparently see me from miles away.
So, I allowed them to sponsor the podcast
and we're currently running a giveaway with them
where there are five total prize packages
amounting to $300 accumulative,
where you can win New Wave Swim Buoy,
you can win some goggles,
you can win some hand paddles, a swimming towel,
I think a mesh bag.
All those things are available to you,
five total prize packages
and you enter by clicking the first link that you see
in the description below.
Now that said, we are not ending the trainiac stories
that we do every week on this week's
Triathlon News Day Tuesday,
if you have a story that you want to share
with the trainiac community,
I think we've only got a handful left,
so get us topped back up
by emailing me at taren@triathlontaren.com.
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Later trainiacs, quick one today.
I think it's gonna be quick.
Gonna guess six minutes, 47 seconds.